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Re: Coerce Text to Date
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Re: Coerce Text to Date

  • Subject: Re: Coerce Text to Date
  • From: Bill White <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 19:00:43 -0500
Chris,

> My text variable is named the_text, and the value is (for example)
> "10/17/2002". So...
>
> set the_new_date to date (the_text)
>
> doesn't seem to work, nor does (the_text) as date or anything else.

set the_text to "10/17/2002"

set the_new_date to date (the_text)
--> date "Thursday, October 17, 2002 12:00:00 AM"

Works fine here in OS X 10.2.2, AS 1.9.

Bill
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